On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:42:46 +0200 Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 04:59:56AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > In article <4E7EB148.1040405%fastmail.fm@localhost>, > > David Howland <metalliqaz%fastmail.fm@localhost> wrote: > > >Way back in September 2009, Alistair gave a presentation that > > >predicted a 6.0 release in Summer 2010 > > >(http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_developer_summit_in_cambridge). > > > It is now Autumn 2011... what happened? > > > > Well, things did not work out as planned. But we are getting close > > to be feature complete now... > > Just to expand on this a bit more: > > src/doc/NetBSD-6 > > has the headline items which will be in the next release. In > particular, support for kernel modules needs a little more work, Xen > suspend/resume will also need some more testing, and we'd also like to > have Cherry's Xen MP branch merged. From a personal PoV, I'd like to > see the kernel-based iSCSI initiator contributed by Wasabi move from > othersrc to src, and riz and I have been working on that for a while > now. > > As to the delay - we had an idea what we wanted to go into NetBSD-6, > and have stayed close to that idea. Not very agile, no, and, with > hindsight, we would probably not do it that way again. But that's > where we are, and 6 will be a huge advance on 5 that I believe it's > well worth the wait. So much so, that I run 5.99.* on all of my > machines (except one vm in a colo). > > Now I don't want to make any hostages to fortune, but I'd really like > to see a 6.0 release in 2011. Really. We have still to branch for 6, > but the testing framework (thanks, guys and gals) have meant that the > long quiet period for testing and fixup after branching and before > release is drastically reduced - still there, but easier to see > regressions as and when they happen - so we believe that our release > cycle time will be drastically improved in this area. > > Regards, > Alistair Speaking as a relative newcomer to NetBSD and indeed to *nix generally I can say that I have grown accustomed to the pace at which NetBSD proceeds. I like the way there is never any drama about deadlines. I do my best to follow the posts to the mailing lists and I like the way work is done quietly, without any of the fuss that goes with other OSes. Even significant changes are implemented and announced without drama. NetBSD is of course a small team which means it takes longer to bring things to a conclusion, but I appreciate the fact that there is never a sense of pressure or excessive haste. I've always had the impression code quality matters, no matter how long it takes, and this is a breath of fresh air in a world where other OSes are piling one release schedule upon another, with all the attendant problems that undue haste brings. -- Gerard Lally
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